The story
A nature study in film that will prove as entertaining as it is educational. It was produced by Thanhouser cameramen in California.
Summary from The Moving Picture World · 8 February 1913
Why watch it
4 minutes, and what to watch for
Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California.
What the papers said
2 reviewsThis shows the alligator in his several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age. It is a film taken at the alligator farm in California.
Interesting pictures of alligators from the time they are squirming little reptiles that can be held in the hands, until they are hundreds of years old. ‘Okeechobee’ is said to be 500 years old, and certainly looks like an Egyptian mummy. Instructive and well worthwhile, though we have seen similar pictures before.
Cast and crew
No cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.
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- Filmed in
- Southern California alligator farm
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From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1913 →
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Seven Ages of an Alligator”. thanhouser.org/films/seven-ages-of-an-alligator/
Where copies are held
- Held by
- Library of Congress
- Completeness
- Unknown
- Restored by
- Library of Congress · 2013
- Scored by
- Ben Model
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